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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed (Sydney Smith Quotes)
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737 (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up (Sydney Smith Quotes)
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue (Sydney Smith Quotes)
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in (Sydney Smith Quotes)
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions (Sydney Smith Quotes)
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can (Sydney Smith Quotes)
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Dean Swift's rule is as good for women as for men - never to talk above a half minute without pausing, and giving others an opportunity to strike in (Sydney Smith Quotes)
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon (Sydney Smith Quotes)
He was a one book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Macaulay is like a book in breeches... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful (Sydney Smith Quotes)
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all (Sydney Smith Quotes)
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Heat, ma'am! It was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Heat, ma? Am! I said; it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face (Sydney Smith Quotes)
For Gods sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself (Sydney Smith Quotes)
The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time (Sydney Smith Quotes)
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them (Sydney Smith Quotes)